Based in Dubai, Agnes is Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Professor of Management Communication of Hult International Business School. Her M.Phil and PhD degrees in English and Applied Linguistics were awarded by Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University and she holds an MA from Warsaw University. Previously she was Lecturer of Business Communication at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan.

For more than twenty-five years, Professor Hollander has been an independent consultant to businesses in a broad range of industries. He is an executive coach to senior leaders and a team development facilitator. For more than two decades he has served on the faculty of GE’s management development center (Crotonville) where he teaches performance management. Allen also teaches in executive courses at the Kelley School of Business, Columbia University and the Tuck School. He is certified in the BarOn EQ-I™and EQ 360™ emotional intelligence assessments.

Bill Costello has served on the faculties of Babson, Northeastern, and Boston University. He is Founder and President of Technology Management, a consultancy firm that specializes in operations strategy and operational diagnostics. Among his clients are Proctor & Gamble, Gillette, MasterCard, General Motors and General Electric. Other positions he has held include Principal and Practice Director at Anderson Consulting, Vice President of Operations at ITP Boston, and Corporate Director at United Brands. Bill earned his MBA from Babson and his BS from Bryant College. At Hult, he will parallel teach Operations Management with Nick Amdur.

Mr. Baker is a Professor of Business Administration at Northeastern University. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Hult. He has served on the boards of a number of organizations, corporate and charitable. His principle areas of interest are Business Policy and Strategy, the Business-Government interface, and International Affairs. Mr. Baker has been involved with a Wide spectrum of industries, but particularly Transportation/Logistics, Defense/National Security, and Healthy/Biotechnology.

Professor Tunnard is an independent management consultant and a visiting professor at Hult, the Leipzig Graduate School of Management, and the Fletcher School of Tufts University. Until March 2001, he was a Director of the Arthur D. Little (ADL) International Travel, Tourism and Hospitality consulting practice. He worked in ADL’s offices in Cambridge, Brussels and London and had responsibilities for sales and major-case leadership. He also oversaw the design and management of ADL’s award-winning interactive web site. Mr. Tunnard has spent more than thirty years in international business. Prior to joining ADL, he directed world-wide strategy and technology partnerships for the Travel Division of American Express TRS Co. He has also run his own consulting firm; and has owned and operated a hotel barge company in southern France. He is a recognized expert on innovation and technology-led change in the international communications, travel, and financial service industries, and he has successfully led board-level strategy assignments for some of the world’s most respected companies and for many government ministries in Europe, Asia, Africa and the United States. Mr. Tunnard speaks fluent French and Italian and has a working knowledge of German, Spanish and Modern Greek. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy from which he received an MA in 1985 and a MALD 2003, and he holds an AB from Harvard College (1971).

Dr. Daniel Deneffe is also an international partner in consulting at Arthur D. Little. Prior to Hult, Dr. Deneffe taught strategy at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. His main interests are strategy, customer management and quantitative modeling. He is widely published in economic and managerial journals and co-authored a book on market evolution.

Professor Leggett is a principal in Leggett & Leggett, PC, a professional corporation of certified public accountants with the majority of its activities related to Management and Financial Advisory Services. In addition, he is the President of a closely held real estate development and management firm. He has been providing financial management advisory services relating to both business and investment activities for over twenty years in such industries as Computer Software Development, Construction, Hotels and Resorts, Hydro-electric Power Facilities, International Management and Financial Services, Medical & Professional Services, Oil & Gas Exploration and Development, Real Estate Development & Sales, Restaurant, Retail Sales, and Wholesale Marketing & Sales. His real estate activities have involved the development and management of both residential and commercial properties in California, Arizona and Oregon. He holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration (majoring in both finance and accounting) from the University of Arizona, a doctoral minor in Law from the University Of Arizona School Of Law, a M.Ac. in Taxation and a B.S. in Finance also from the University of Arizona. Prior to his association with the Hult International Business School, he has served on the faculties of the University of Arizona, Northeastern University, Western Oregon University, Babson College and Bentley College and has authored and co-authored several articles in the areas of taxation, real estate, asset valuation and financial decision making.

Eliot Sherman, in addition to being a lecturer at Northeastern University, is also a CPA who provides strategic, financial and general management consultation to smaller, growing businesses and not-for-profit agencies. He provides professional financial and operational management training through the AICPA, state societies of CPAs, and other professional training organizations.

Professor Kafi has had more than 25 years of business and management experience. He is the founder and board member of Plexus Solutions, a Boston-area consulting firm. He served as CEO of Matrix Corporation, and vice president of LexCom, Inc. and Links International, Inc. Professor Kafi has delivered numerous presentations on economic development, foreign investment, international trade, economic policy and national strategies. His consulting activities have entailed cost-benefit analyses, risk assessments and strategic planning. Professor Kafi has served on the faculties of Brandeis, Suffolk, Northeastern and Boston University.

Professor Chartier has worked 21 years in banking within the financial services groups American Express, Dresdner Bank, and Bank of Boston. His banking expertise ranges from credit analysis to domestic and cross-border lending, treasury sales, foreign exchange and interest risk hedging advisory services. As Director of Institutional Treasury sales at American Express Bank in London, his geographic customer base encompassed 15 countries spanning from Europe to the Middle East, and Africa. He has taught Economics and Finance, in various colleges and universities in the Boston area, including Babson College, Boston University, Suffolk University, and The New England College of Finance. Frédéric is the 2005 recipient of the Edward F. Shaughnessy Outstanding Faculty Award, presented by the New England College of Finance.

Dr. Kastner who is a Hult Senior Vice President has over thirty years experience in Management, Consulting and Executive Strategic experience that ranges over 14 countries in four continents in a large variety of industries, from Financial to Energy, from Consumer Goods to Telecom. He is CEO of REDISTUS International, Inc. a management consulting firm which works with C-level executives developing their strategic agendas. Dr. Kastner worked with academic institutions on development projects in Latin Amercia and the US. Director of the Nomos Project at Harvard’s CFIA, He serves as Director on several Boards and teaches at IESA in Venezuela, UNIANDES in Colombia, he also taught as a visiting scholar at UVM, NYU, Cornell and MIT. He is sought after speaker in international forums.

Gladys has taught business communication and writing for over 15 years to clients in both the private and public sectors. She has delivered tailored group training on a continuous basis to several Banking/Investment institutions and to various corporate clients with culturally diverse populations, as well as working with individual professionals. Before joining Wordpower Communications, Ms. Souda spent 10 years in the financial industry. She traded municipal bonds for retail and institutional accounts at Kidder Peabody in Los Angeles. As a broker at J.J. Kenney/Drake in New York, she traded municipal bonds between large financial institutions. Her knowledge of the financial industry gives her a unique advantage/perspective when teaching communications skills at financial institutions, as she fully understands the content being communicated. Ms. Souda is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Madison and holds a teaching degree.

Dr. Hitendra Patel is Director of the Center for Innovation, Excellence and Leadership. He was a senior leader and co-founder of Monitor Group’s Innovation Practice and was responsible for Asia and Latin America. Before Monitor, Hitendra was a senior manager at Arthur D Little. As a management consultant, Hitendra has made lasting impact with all types of companies by helping them identify new engines for growth and develop their own capacity to innovate. Prior to consulting, Hitendra worked at Motorola in the portable energy space and is the owner of six patents. He is also a founder of various venture-backed companies in Brazil, Mexico and the US. Hitendra is the co-author of 101 Innovation Breakthroughs and The State of Innovation at the Firm Level in Singapore and in the process of writing his third book on Thinking and Acting Differently to Make Innovation Real.

Professor Slusser has over 30 years of information technology experience. His background includes positions in applications development, project and program management, executive leadership and management consulting. Manufacturing, Services, Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals represent key industries in which he has worked. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in information technology at Northeastern University. As president of Enterprise Business Systems, he focuses on providing strategic value consulting to CIO’s.

Professor Zif holds engineering degrees from Technion, Israel, and an MBA and PhD from New York University. He was a member of the faculty at Tel-Aviv University and lectured for many years in executive programs at Harvard, Wharton and Northwestern and in many programs around the world. He was elected "Professor of the Year" at Hult in December 2005. Professor Zif has extensive consulting experience in many industries and was previously the president of a start-up U.S. firm funded by venture capital.

Dr. Edmunds specializes in finance and managerial economics. A member of the faculty at Babson College, Dr. Edmunds has teaching experience in Spain, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic.

For over twenty-five years John Kerrick has had professional experience as a manager, educator, coach, and consultant in a variety of settings, most notably Dartmouth College, Outward Bound, Boston University’s award winning Executive Challenge Program, the Center for Executive Development, and his own training and development firm. His current work is focused on effective teamwork and executive coaching.

Prof. Teopaco has 12 years of teaching experience at Northeastern University, Babson College, Miami University, Harvard Extension School, and Boston College. He has taught marketing management, strategic marketing, international marketing management, marketing communications, services marketing, brand management, and business-to-business marketing. He has nine years of corporate marketing management and six years of consulting experience.

Professor Newman has extensive experience with entrepreneurship and small businesses. He was the founding director of the entrepreneurship program at Boston University and taught entrepreneurship at Babson College for many years. He regularly consults to universities and government bodies on the design and delivery of entrepreneurship programs internationally and has developed programs in the U.S., the Middle East, South America, and Europe. In 1999, Mr. Newman was profiled by Business Week as one of six people who contributed to the success of small businesses in the 1990s, the only academic on the list.

Professor Menéndez has marketing experience at P & G (8 years in Venezuela and 2 years in Japan) and H.J. Heinz (17 years in Venezuela, where he was responsible for marketing, sales, credit and distribution). At the same time he joined Procter he started a teaching career at night. He has taught post graduate business courses (marketing, advertising, sales, etc.) in several Venezuelan universities. He is on the board of directors of two consumer goods companies (coffee and pasta), a market research firm and a non profit organization. He and his wife Luisana live in Caracas where he is a professor at IESA (Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración).

Professor Yao-Cooper specializes in marketing, brand loyalty and quantitative methods. She has also lectured at Harvard Business School, Boston University and Hua Zhong University in Wuhan, China. Ms. Yao-Cooper has over fifteen years of consulting experience in market research, strategy and corporate training. Her clients range from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, such as American Express, IBM and Merck.

Professor Marks' expertise is in areas of strategy, management and finance of emerging growth and middle-market companies. He is currently the principal and managing partner of High Rock Partners, Inc., an advisory firm. He recently published the Handbook of Financing Growth: Strategies & Capital Structure. He obtained his MBA from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, and his undergraduate studies were in electrical engineering at North Carolina State University.

Leslie D. Ball is an Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Isenberg School of Management. He was a Partner with Computer Science Corporation’s Systems Integration Company where he managed an international business processing reengineering management consulting practice and directed the Executive Education Practice at CSC Index. Dr. Ball has consulted with over 100 major companies in the United States, Europe, Canada, and South America and focuses on helping senior executives understand the business impact of new computer technologies. His clients have included British Airways, AT&T, Nortel, IBM, IBM Europe, Continental Airlines, Houghton Mifflin, and Gillette. Dr. Ball served on the Massachusetts’ Governor’s Task Force on e-Government. He is a Trustee of the Boston Chapter of the Society for Information Management (SIM).

Lewis Rambo is an independent consultant in Organization Development, Human Resource Management, the Management of Diversity, and the Development of Strategic Focus and Organizational Alignment for clients in business, government and education.

Professor Tanlu was the Assistant Director of Budget and Planning at Brandeis University and a Finance and Accounting Manager at Procter and Gamble, Philippines. He has taught Financial and Managerial Accounting and Financial Statement Analysis at both the undergraduate and graduate levels at Harvard College, Boston University, Brandeis University, and Ateneo De Manila University (Philippines). He is a doctoral candidate in the Accounting and Management unit of Harvard Business School. He has published in the Academy of Management Review and conducts research on budgeting, performance measurement, and conflicts of interest in accounting.

Professor Marples has been teaching for 30 years. He is the Treasurer of Duxbury Music Promoters, Inc., Chair of the First Parish Board of Trustees, and prepares income taxes. He has taught graduate courses at Stanford, Harvard, and Northeastern Universities, as well as at IMEDE, Menlo College, and Bentley College.

Fawzy is currently Associate Professor of Finance at the College of Business Administration of the University of Sharjah. His MSc and PhD degrees in Finance were awarded by the University of Strathclyde, and his BCom was earned at Ain Shams University, Egypt. He also holds the CFA designation by the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts. Fawzy taught Finance widely in Scotland for Strathclyde University, the University of Stirling, and Heriot Watt University as well as serving as head of the finance and banking group at United Arab Emirates University.

Mario is Research Assistant Professor in the School of Business Administration at the University of Miami. He holds his BS and PhD degrees from the University of Miami, and his MBA was awarded by Florida State University. As a full time lecturer in the Computer Information Systems department since 1997, and Director of Professional Education in the College of Engineering previous to that, Mario has a rich mix of academic as well as consulting and corporate experience with such companies as Southern Bell, KPMG Peat Marwick, General Electric, and General Telephone.

Professor Norton has also taught at Babson College for the past several years and has been a management development and corporate communication consultant for the past thirty years.

Michael is a Manager at Arthur D. Little-Benelux, based in Brussels. He leads the Public Services Consulting Practice and also works with the Strategy and Organization Practice based in Belgium. Michael holds his MSc, M.Phil, and PhD degrees in Government from the London School of Economics & Political Science. He was also the recipient of a Hoover Foundation Fellowship at Brown University, and Visiting Fellow at Oslo University.

Michele Souda, Founder and President of Wordpower Communications, has taught business communication and writing for over 25 years to clients in both the private and public sectors. She devotes a sizeable portion of her consulting practice to Executive Development. For 7 years she served as a full time member of the Harvard faculty. In addition to past full time standing at Harvard, she has taught specialized Business Communication courses for Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and for Harvard’s Bunting Institute. Her courses at Harvard represent work with international business and other professional audiences. Previous to her teaching at Harvard, Ms. Souda founded and launched (with the late Helen Loeb) the business and technical communication programs at Northeastern University. She has taught advanced Business Communication courses at both Northeastern and Harvard. For many years, Michele had been the New England Director of the National Book Critics Circle. She has published over 150 book reviews and articles, some in the pages of the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, New York Newsday, the Miami Herald, The Nation, The Christian Science Monitor, and others.

Mufeed M. Rawashdeh has served as Chair of the Department of Accounting and Finance at the American University of Dubai. He has also served on the faculties of the United Arab Emirates University, Central Washington University, Alakhawayn University (Morocco), and Yarmouk University (Jordan). A Certified Management Accountant and Certified Financial Manager, Mufeed has served as a consultant for the Central Bank of Jordan and Institute of Public Administration, Jordan. Before embarking on his academic career, he was General Manager and Finance Director of Al-Manhal International Group, a major contracting firm in the UAE. Mufeed earned both his PhD and MBA from St. Louis University. In Dubai, he will teach International Accounting.

Professor Amdur has more than 30 years of line, staff and executive policy experience in engineering, manufacturing, computer systems and education settings. He is president of Amdur Associates, an operations consulting firm that focuses on enterprise and supply-chain solutions. He has taught graduate courses in operations management at Northeastern University, Bentley College, Boston University and Simmons College.

Nikos joined Huron in 2004 as Head of Undergraduate Business Administration. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in Accounting and Finance within both the British and American system, including the University of Wales and Aston University. In addition to his academic interests Nikos is actively involved in the Hospitality and Tourism industry. He is member of the Hellenic Professional Yacht Owner Association. He owns Omegasail, a yacht charter and management company.

Professor Murray has focused specifically on emerging markets in management development, financial analysis, capital budgeting, international accounting and training needs assessments. He has more than 34 years of international consulting experience with Arthur D. Little and Hult International Business School.

Dr. Courtin is a veteran CEO with 30 years of experience in software, computers and communications. He has been the senior executive with Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), Proteon, Comstream and Sangate. He has created alliances, joint ventures and partnerships in over 30 countries. He holds a PhD in Systems Science from Columbia University in New York City. Dr. Courtin has served as the Executive in Residence at Hult, drawing from his vast experience to assist students in their business endeavors.

Professor Peter Harwood was the President of Au Bon Pain Franchising and former President of International Franchising for Allied Domecq that owns Dunkin’ Donuts and Baskin-Robbins. He spent his early years in the UK in Human Resources, pub and restaurant management. He re-located to Boston to lead the international expansion of three of the world’s best-loved consumer brands. He returned to the UK in 2002 and advises a number of emerging businesses in the retail and service sectors. Mr. Harwood is a Visiting Fellow in International Business at the University of Bradford, and until 2002 was a member of the North American Advisory Board of the London Business School.

Professor Ramamurti is a Jeff Bornstein Senior Fellow and Professor of International Business at Northeastern University, Boston, where he has taught since 1982 (with short leaves of absence). He obtained his MBA from the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad, graduating at the top of his class, and his DBA from Harvard Business School. His research and consulting focus on corporate strategy and business-government relations in Emerging Markets. He has been a visiting professor at Wharton School (2006-07), MIT's Sloan School (1998-2000), Fletcher School (2002), IMD-Switzerland (since 1999), and Harvard Business School (1986-88). He has been a consultant to several private companies, to international organizations, such as the World Bank, USAID, and the United Nations, and to the governments of more than a dozen emerging economies. Prof. Ramamurti was elected Chair (President) of the Academy of Management's International Management Division, which has 2,800 scholar-members from around the world.

Rob is a general management consultant with broad experience assisting clients in the areas of change management, capability building and strategy innovation.

Dr. Bogosian has extensive experience in Financial Services, Information Technology and training and leadership development, with Fidelity Investment, State Street Corporation and Evergreen. He is currently the founder and principal consultant at RVB Associates which offers consulting services focused on linking management and leadership development to business strategy.

Professor Kasameyer focuses on corporate strategy and restructuring, with his experience spanning managing, consulting and teaching. He has been president of several technology-based companies and the commissioner of a government enterprise through restructuring and growth stages. He has significant international consulting and teaching experience with Arthur D. Little, the World Bank and Hult International Business School.

Dr. Thomas teaches and consults on the managerial, social and ethical impacts of the globally inter-networked economy. He holds a doctorate from Harvard University in psychological anthropology and has held clinical and research appointments in psychology at the Harvard Medical School. He has been a visiting faculty member at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, the AT&T School of Business, and is currently Senior Lecturer in International Management at Northeastern University. Dr. Thomas has consulted to many Fortune 500 multinationals and the U.S. government, and has developed programs in Internet-based distributed learning and collaborative group work between a number of European and American universities. He has lived and worked for several years in Eastern Europe and has a special interest in the European Union. Dr. Thomas has received awards for innovative uses of technology in teaching and is a recipient of Northeastern University's Excellence in Teaching Award.

Dr. O'Donnell is an engineer-turned-industry-analyst for the telecommunication and media industries. His research focuses on the intersection of technology, policy and economics in the development of new markets. He has studied consumer and market reactions to new communications technologies for the MIT Media Laboratory and corporate and NGO clients. He teaches courses in international communications at Tufts University's Fletcher School.

Steve has over 25 years of management consulting and training experience in areas such as development economics, education and training, strategic planning, and marketing. He was a Director in the Development Economics and Finance group at Arthur D. Little for 10 years, and spent the last 3 years with the company as the global head of its internal learning and training activities. For the past 10 years, Steve has been one of three partners in ITSMA, an industry association that focuses on helping high technology companies with their services and solutions marketing. Steve has taught at a number of colleges and universities, including the University of Massachusetts, the University of Bordeaux, the University of the West Indies, and Arizona State University

Dr. Marple is a former chairman of Northeastern’s Finance and Insurance department. He was a Ford Foundation Fellow and a member of faculty at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. Professor Marple serves as a trustee of a number of the world’s largest mutual funds and of a public electric utility. He is currently investigating the financing of US cooperatives.

Professor Hancock has over thirty years of experience as a senior management consultant for IBM, Ernst & Young, and Keane. He also was world-wide marketing manager for a division of Digital Equipment Corporation where he created the world’s first business-to-business online e-commerce site. He has taught at Northeastern University where he was named “outstanding instructor of the year”; Babson College, and Cambridge College. He is listed in “Who’s Who in America”, “Who’s Who in the World”, and “Who’s Who in Finance and Industry”.

Dr. Zif has extensive experience in leading training and development programs for managers in organizations in different cultures and environments. Her areas of teaching are: courses and workshops on leadership, organizational behavior and cross-cultural communications. She has an outstanding record in student evaluations.